Patiala

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member of parliament (MP) Dr Dharamvir Gandhi on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital with a representation of long-pending issues of his Patiala constituency, including taming of the Ghaggar river.

The department of encyclopedia of Sikhism of Punjabi University organised the Colonel Harpartap Singh Dhillon memorial lecture to commemorate Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's tri-centenary of martyrdom on Tuesday.

The Japan Mendel Society conferred the WADA memorial award for the years 2013 and 2014 on professor VK Singhal and professor RC Gupta of Punjabi University's botany department for their academic achievements in the field of cytology.

Three members of a family, including two children, were killed on Sunday night after the roof of their house at ward number 14, Bharat Nagar here, collapsed due to heavy rainfall. The deceased have been identified as Rakesh Kumar (46), his 11-year-old daughter Seema and his son Sukhwinder (10).

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member of parliament (MP) Dr Dharamvir Gandhi on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital with representation of long-pending issues of his Patiala constituency, including taming of Ghaggar river.

The verbal attack of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Partap Singh Bajwa and former Congress leader Jagmeet Singh Brar on Sunday left Preneet Kaur, a Congress MLA and wife of Captain Amarinder Singh, red-faced, as both pointed out that the Congress has given a 'raw deal' to late Jasjeet Singh Randhawa in 2012 assembly polls.

A 70-year-old former Army man died after he fell into a pothole excavated to repair water pipes on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Kartar Singh, a resident of ward number 7. Kartar was going to Patiala on his motorcycle when he fell in a deep pothole in the middle of the road near Akalgarh Gurduwara Sahib.